{"id":1476,"date":"2009-07-13T09:57:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T13:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2012-04-24T11:50:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:50:13","slug":"in-the-news-michael-jackson-and-celebrity-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/in-the-news-michael-jackson-and-celebrity-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: Michael Jackson and Celebrity Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week of July 13, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

News Item:<\/strong> The recent death of music entertainer and humanitarian Michael Jackson has received extensive media coverage these past few weeks. Tabloid magazines and cable news channels are speculating how he died while also searching for new ways to profit from his passing. Nielsen ratings revealed that over 31 million viewers tuned in to Jackson’s $1.4 million memorial service last week. Why is so much attention being paid to his passing, and why are celebrities, in general, considered major news stories?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Afterlife as Afterimage: Understanding Posthumous Fame<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Steve Jones and Joli Jensen. Peter Lang, 2005
\nCall Number: ML3470 .A36 2005<\/p>\n

Celebrity<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Chris Rojek. Reaktion Books, 2001
\nCall Number: BJ1470.5 .R65 2001 (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By P. David Marshall. University of Minnesota Press, 1997
\nCall Number: E169.04 .M366 1997<\/p>\n

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Celebrity\/Culture<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Ellis Cashmore. Routledge, 2006
\nCall Number: Available online via NetLibrary<\/p>\n

Celebrity Sells<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Hamish Pringle. Wiley, 2004
\nCall Number: HD69 .B7 P75 2004 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Joshua Gamson. University of California Press, 1994
\nCall Number: E169 .G25 1994 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

The Cultural Significance of the Child Star<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Jane O’Connor. Routledge, 2008
\nCall Number: PN1590 .C45 O26 2008<\/p>\n

Fan Cultures<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Matt Hills. Routledge, 2002
\nCall Number: HM646 .H55 2002<\/p>\n

Fans: The Mirror of Consumption<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Cornel Sandvoss. Polity, 2006
\nCall Number: HM646 .S24 2004<\/p>\n

Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington. New York University Press, 2007
\nCall Number: HM6464. F36 2007<\/p>\n

Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Societies<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Richard Dyer. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2004
\nCall Number: PN1995.9 .S6 D94 2004<\/p>\n

High Visibility: The Making and Marketing of Professionals into Celebrities<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Irving Rein, Philip Kotler, and Martin Stoller. NTC Pub. Group, 1997
\nCall Number: HM263 .R366 1997 (Also available online NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

Illusions of Immortality: A Psychology of Fame and Celebrity<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By David Giles. St. Martin’s Press, 2000
\nCall Number: BJ1470.5 .G55 2000<\/p>\n

Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Su Holmes and Sean Redmond. Routledge, 2006
\nCall Number: E169 .Z83 F68 2006<\/p>\n

John Lennon Imagined: Cultural History of a Rock Star<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Janne M\u00e4kel\u00e4. Peter Lang, 2004
\nCall Number: ML420 .L38 M35 2004<\/p>\n

Morbid Curiosity: Celebrity Tombstones Across America<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Elaine McCarthy. Monagco Publishers, 2001
\nCall Number: CT120 .M33 2001<\/p>\n

Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures: A Psychological and Behavioral Analysis<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by J. Reid Meloy. Lorraine Sheridan, and Jens Hoffmann. Oxford University Press, 2008
\nCall Number: HV6594 .S742 2008<\/p>\n

The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Daniel Herwitz. Columbia University Press, 2008
\nCall Number: BJ1470.5 .H47 2008<\/p>\n

Stars in our Eyes: The Star Phenomenon in the Contemporary Era<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Angela Ndalianis and Charlotte Henry. Praeger, 2002
\nCall Number: PN1998.2 .S695 2002 (Also available online via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

Theorizing Fandom: Fans, Subculture, and Identity<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Cheryl Harris and Alison Alexander. Hampton Press, 1998
\nCall Number: PN21 .T44 1998<\/p>\n

Understanding Media: Inside Celebrity<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Jessica Evans and David Hesmondhalgh. Open University Press, 2005
\nCall Number: P96 .C35 U53 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week of July 13, 2009 News Item: The recent death of music entertainer and humanitarian Michael Jackson has received extensive media coverage these past few weeks. Tabloid magazines and cable news channels are speculating how he died while also searching for new ways to profit from his passing. Nielsen ratings revealed that over 31 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[206,207,211,205,209,204,208,210],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-in-the-library","category-in-the-news","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-culture","tag-fame","tag-fans","tag-hollywood","tag-michael-jackson","tag-stars","tag-tabloids"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/5611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}